The minister's remarks have triggered a fury with an urge from the opposition, asking him to concentrate on his ministerial duties and pipe down from making such contentious comments.
The writer himself broke his silence and posted on Facebook that he had no connection with the web series and that he was not consulted or informed by Vetri Maaran's team before using his novel title.
The visual of this hot potato moment has been rampant across the social media and interestingly, the video of the incident has put netizens in a divide.
The Indian league was flabbergasted to see such a tag where the flags are made by the neighbour when our home has rich capabilities to produce the tricolour.